Obama: I'm not 'particularly ideological'

[Kelvin Mace]

87. What is the evidence that someone is making these plans?

Is it permissible for the police to attack your house with drones on the say-so of an informant? If the informant is lying for money and the police kill your children, do you say "Hey, mistakes happen, carry on."? Or do you say "I will hunt down your children and kill them. I will inflict the pain on you, that you have inflicted on me."?

Any time you attack civilians directly it is a war crime. Unfortunately, only the loser of the war has to pay the penalty, the winner skates. So, yes, what Churchill and FDR did in Germany and Japan were war crimes. And before you tell me about how much more evil the Nazis and Japanese were than us because "death camps" (they were, but that is hardly a defensible moral stance) I would remind you that we were perfectly willing to look the other way and employ those very same Nazis and Japanese when it suited our purpose (See Operation: Paperclip and Unit 731).

If the US would restrain its imperial agenda, rein in its exploitative corporations and stop interfering with people's governments, stop backing dictators who use brutal and lethal methods on their own people to stay in power, then we would have fewer problems.

Your question to me is "How would you deal with the people who want to kill us?" My question is "What did we do to piss these people off so much that they are willing to commit suicide just to hurt us?"

Answer my question, and your question has a self-evident answer.